Fredrike Fritzi REISZ (b. 17 June 1925 Baden-bei-Wein, Austria, d. 13 January 1996) was a very good pianist and this ended up saving her life. Fritzi obtained a music scholarship in what was then Palestine and left Austria just before the Nazis came. She stayed in Israel with Claire SILBER and her husband. Fritzi REISZ did not see her parents again until after the war. When the approaching war closed the conservatory at which she was studying, Fritzi REISZ trained as a children's nurse in Jerusalem.
There she met Stanley Peter REID (known as Peter) (d. 13 Jan. 1996 Basingstoke, England). who was doing his national service in the Royal Air Force. Flouting all rules, they kept seeing each other and married on 5 April 1948. Because of the rules against fraternizing, they were not able to spend their wedding night together and next saw each other two weeks later.
Peter REID returned to England in 1948 with Fritzi and they lived at first at his parents' home in 13 Abbey View, Pinvin, Nr Pershore, Worcestershire. He took a job with L M Van Moppes Ltd, who moved to Basingstoke, Hampshire in 1951. Both Peter and Fritzi were active in the Conservative Party, holding the ward committee together in the Labour area of South Ham for many years. Their main hobby was ballroom dancing, which they enjoyed at Smith's Industry's dance club and numerous dances around the town. They had a wide circle of friends based around the dancing and their political activities. In later years Fritizi suffered from colitis, and found through trial and error that attacks were triggered by a sensitivity to tomato. For many years she had to avoid all trace of tomato - eating one would have killed her. In the end she developed pulmonary fibrosis. For some years she had become increasingly breathless and was bring treated for Asthma. In 1995, she and Peter went to Austria for a winter break just before Christmas. She was taken ill there and treated for many days in the local hospital with antibiotics, assuming pneumonia. They made no difference. Peter eventually managed to arrange, through the insurance company, for Fritzi and him to fly back to England. She died in Basingstoke hospital three days later, 13 January 1996.
